Oscar Wilde

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Oscar Wilde has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Stuff You Should Know (Nov 2025). Quoted (via Julia) for the line 'everything in moderation, including moderation' as an aphorism supporting her approach to food.

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime s